Washington (CNN) - Conservative members of the Republican National Committee are circulating a new resolution that calls on party members to stand up to President Obama's "socialist" agenda and would prohibit RNC funds from going to GOP candidates who disagree with elements of a proposed ten plank ideological platform.
The language of the proposal is still being tweaked ahead of January's RNC Winter Meeting in Hawaii, where it could be submitted for a vote before the full committee.
Jim Bopp, Jr., an RNC committee member from Indiana and the chief sponsor of the resolution, said the goal of the resolution is to "re-establish the party's conservative bona fides."
"This would establish standards for candidates and hold them accountable to RNC's conservative platform," he told CNN. "We are open to diverse views, but you do have to agree with us most of the time."
Bopp said such standards would insulate RNC chairman Michael Steele from the kind of conservative criticism he faced last month for supporting a moderate Republican, Dede Scozzafava, in the special election in New York's 23rd congressional district.
"I think he has been unjustly criticized for supporting the Republican candidate in New York," Bopp said of Steele, whom he opposed during the chairman's race last Winter. "This resolution will establish standards so that he wont won't feel obligated to support every Republican and not feel criticized."
RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho had no comment on the resolution.
"The deadline for submitting Resolutions for the RNC Winter Meeting is more than 30 days away," Gitcho said in an e-mail.
"At this point, we do not what resolutions will be submitted nor what the final language of any resolution ultimately submitted may be."
If approved in its current form, the resolution would be the second RNC document this year to formally accuse the Obama administration of pushing socialist policies. The committee approved a resolution in May calling on Democrats to "stop pushing our country toward socialism."
Full text of the resolution after the jump:
Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of CandidatesWHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed that the Republican Party should support and espouse conservative principles and public policies; andWHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan also believed the Republican Party should welcome those with diverse views; and
WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent; and
WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies and Republican solidarity in opposition to Obama's socialist agenda is necessary to preserve the security of our country, our economic and political freedoms, and our way of life; and
WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies is necessary to restore the trust of the American people in the Republican Party and to lead to Republican electoral victories; and
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee shares President Ronald Reagan's belief that the Republican Party should espouse conservative principles and public policies and welcome persons of diverse views; and
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee desires to implement President Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates; and
WHEREAS, in addition to supporting candidates, the Republican National Committee provides financial support for Republican state and local parties for party building and federal election activities, which benefits all candidates and is not affected by this resolution; and
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:
(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's "stimulus" bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further
RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy positions of the Republican National Committee, as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee; and be further
RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, as they become known, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.
Chief Sponsor:
James Bopp, Jr. NCM INSponsors:
Avie Axdahl NCW MN
Donna Cain NCW OR
Cindy Costa NCW SC
Demetra Demonte NCW IL
Peggy Lambert NCW TN
Carolyn McLarty NCW OK
Pete Rickets NCM NE
Steve Scheffler NCM IA
Helen Van Etten NCW KA
Solomon Yue NCM OR
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I'm so glad that the RNC is attacking moderates from both parties. That's what we really need in this country. Ideologues from both sides attacking each other and missing what the American people need. Great leadership Chairman Steele! Remove moderate Democrats and better yet, moderate Republicans to ensure truly bipolar leadership.
I'm glad this reflects the perspectives of the American people. Oh wait, most of us are at the center of the political spectrum versus the fringe. That's right. *Shakes head*
Get rid of Social Security and free public education then.
GOP: PARTY OF DOLTS.
keep lying GOP its what you do best!!!!!!!!!
Just keep making that tent smaller and smaller....
I sure wish that the RNC would stop being totally childish with all of this socialist crap! They just continue to look like the Fools that they are.
Most Americans want this health care program and the Republicans keep saying that Americans don’t want it..... they are lying through their teeth!
After reading the resolution I am done supporting Republicans. A very short sighted agenda to say the least., one that merely opposes things and people different than what is the Republican ideal person.
Let's for one moment say Obama is a socialist.-
First- so what? He does not write laws. He does not have a vote on the congressional floor. He is not on any of the committee's to decide which bills make it to the floor.
STOP all this whining conservatives. Your way did not work.In 8 years we went into the toilet financially form a clean slate. The voodoo economics Bush Sr. accused Regan of continued in his administration despite the fact that the economy once again ended up in the toilet. Bulling people and thinking of only your pocket doesn't work. Read the accounts of what really got us out of the Depression- goverment spending. Not the sit back and wait mentality you want.
You don't want the goverment to assist people- give up social security. Give up medicare. Give all your pensions from work as a teacher, city, county, state or federal employee- yes, includig the military. Why when a man goes off to war and then passes away several years later, does the wife still get paid for decades? She didn't fight! Most likely he only served 4 years, yet we pay forever.
That's not taking care of our vets. That's giving away the farm.
Stop bashing Obama and give him a chance.
Meanwhile, in Illinois, Tea-partier booed and heckled a mother who lost her daughter and grandchild because they didn't have health insurance. You stay classy, Republicans.
So much for the "Party of Inclusion" and for people who have a free mind!
I do hope there are some decent, intelligent republicans out there that do not support and are tired of their parties actions.
Their anti-American behavior, their goal to destroy our president at any cost, their total obstruction for the betterment of our country and us
has turned them into extremists of the worst kind,.
They do not deserve the name of politicians and do not represent the
the American people.
Their total support of big business at the sacrifice of us is criminal
My party has been reduced to nothing more then a bunch of worthless whiners and complainers. It is now completely void of any and all intelligent thought. It resembles the Taliban more then it does the once proud political party that met controvery with an intelligent thought and a meaningful solution.
My party is pathetic. I refuse to vote for any of my republicans until these scumbags start doing something other then retarded name calling. Yea, retarded is name calling, but hey...I'm a republican. It's all we know how to from what I'm seeing.
What is that? Where is Reagan? Not you, not you
Enjoy your ideological purity! I bet it keeps you in the wilderness.
For the record, I'm a centrist who WANTS there to be thoughtful conservative voices in our national debate. I'll not be including any of the low-information signers of this resolution on the list of thoughtful conservatives.
and would prohibit RNC funds from going to GOP candidates who disagree with elements of a proposed ten plank ideological platform.
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So basically, the New Socialist World Order (GOP) is trampling all over any GOP candidate's freedoms. Bye-bye freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom to be an individual if you still want to be able to call yourself a RethugliKlan. Is this not the most twisted case of hipocrisy at it's best?
If you're a GOPer and are a viable candidate for 2010 or '12, and you wish to do what is best for your country and your constituents you better become an Independent or a Democrat because the GOP teepee just became a pup-tent. The Party of Intolerance just got smaller.
Gues they don't want gay people in the GOP, nor do they want anyone who cannot afford their own health care in the GOP.
Very strange a Socialist conservative party calling another party soclalist is unheralded of in the history of the world again strange!
Darn tootin! Shut down that unamerican socialist thing, you know..the military. And let's tear up them roads and shut down the schools and shut down the police departments and fire departments. Those are all evil socialist programs. Let's burn our social security and our medicare benefits. Because we don't want to be complete and utter hypocritical morons condemning socialism and then supporting the military. That thar military is putting alot of mercenaries out of work, by golly!
Until the RNC gets rid of all the donkeys who have donned tusks and big ears the republican party will have nothing to sell.
I have a resolution: I resolve not to laugh too much at the flailing, whining and crying but the Rebirther Tea Party members.
The French had it right...
They guillotined the RIGHT! Down with Capitalist Republicans!
I have another resolution: I resolve not to laugh too much at the flailing, whining and crying by the Rebirther Tea party members.
Conservative principals are for idiots. They are what ruined this nation to begin with. We must support our fellow american, not spew out from the mouth moronic ideas that have proven to fail, and fail miserably.
Out with any and all republicans, they are the cancer of our society!
It is often called "progressive," "labor," and "activism" and "community organization" agendas, which are all somewhat euphemisms for "socialistic ideas"!
Nothing wrong in calling a "cat" "a cat"....
These idiots are just so clueless. Their resolutions are stupid and misleading. What jerks.
By the way, regarding #s 2 and 3, how have market-based health care and energy reforms worked out so far? They haven't worked out at all! Big industries like health care insurance and energy will always oppose anything that will cut into their bottom line, even when it leads us to ruin. Republicans are so stupid.
Why didn't the GOP implement such a plan before allowing GWB to uproot conservatism from within the GOP?
Please do not call these dingbats "conservatives." They are right-wing extremists, radicals, and fundamentalists, plain and simple; there is nothing conservative about their behavior or beliefs.
Odd that they would idolize Reagan so much. Reagan's administration was one of the first to Nationalize Banks - when a bank ran into trouble,the feds would buy it, clean it up, and sell it back to the private sector. Kind of like Bush's Bank Policy last year (but perhaps better written).
It is also really sad that the GOP is apparently unwilling to allow ANY disagreement in its ranks. So... if a candidate supports, say, 7 of the 10 planks then they are not worthy of being Republican? How elitist and unamerican.
The new Prohibitionist Party...... what a laugh.
YOU MUST THINK AS I THINK....... it's like something out of a bad movie.
And I would say stand up against the Republicans Communist Party...........Two Class of People.......Rich and Poor, afterall, Reagan destroyed the Middle Class in the 1980's
This is so ridiculous. Is President Obama this much of a threat to the racist GOP? I have never in my life seen such hate for a President that these racist pigs are doing things to there own party to hurt the President? This party is a complete embarrassment to this country and i hope they fizzle away and die out, there is no room in this country for the hating, lying and vindictive people of the GOP. This is absurd
Ahh those real amerikans, peddling once again in their uber-partisan ideological fantasy world. And to think, these very people are the ones that beat their chests like a gaggle of monkeys to show off their love of freedom. Yes, in their world you are only free to believe in the same comforting delusions they hold onto, like a baby with its favorite blanket.
A drift toward socialism is a natural consequence of a democracy. It would have happened a lot sooner if the nation could just get over the whole property rights concept.
If they're so against "socialism' perhaps they should introduce a resolution to end all farm subsidies. We wouldn't want the big bad government meddling in the free market, would we? Have a nice day!
I wonder if one of the planks is "likes to plan and attend tea parties"? And they call Democrats the weak party?
The Republicans like to call the Obama administration and our President socialists when they themselves are socialists. They seek to privatize the profits from Wall Street and big business and socialize the risk so they can win both ways.
The Republicans call themselves the party of family values then turn around and break several of the Ten Commandments they supposedly revere.
The Republicans try to control everyone's lives and force them to conform to their perverted sense of values.
Many Republicans seem not to be able to think for themselves and need Rushbo, Hannity, Beck, Steel, and others to tell them what to think. They seem to be a bunch of losers slipping farther and farther from reality.
It's about time the republican starts standing for something again.
Good. Get the moderate, left leaning, no backbone psuedo republicans out of the party and go back to your roots: fiscal conservative, less taxes, less government, strong defense.
When the republicans do this, they win.
Notice that the Democrats have to go towards the center to win. Just look at Obama on the campaign trail. Against Hillary, he was hard left. Against McCain, he was much more moderate.
Hard left does not win, hard right does.
And the shrinking Republican party continues to be it's own worst enemy..................what a stupid group of people. Don't they realize that they would get more members/interest if they were not so right wing and drifted a bit toward the middle????? Watch the growth of Independants sore!!!
1 makes no sense, since Reagan and Bush have shown us that lower taxes tend to result in much higher deficits
3 makes no sense, since cap-and-trade IS market based.
2 and 9 make no sense together, because the private market will always support denial of health care for "market-based" reasons and rationing in favor of those who pay the most
And 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7 were clearly violated by the Bush administration.
They do realize St Reagan doubled the debt when he was President?
And W's UNPAID FOR tax cuts and wars ...
Unfortunately for these guys and their LIES about being fiscally sound, when Obama let's Ws tax cuts run out and he closes out Iraq, the ol deficit picture will change significantly all the while people will be very happy jobs are coming back, they will get health care and we are getting global cooperation on the real debt busters our idiot conservative foreign policy.
...ah didn't Reagan make policies that DEregulated Everything...."trickled-down" economics that didn't trickle down? The demise of the middle class and the shipment of jobs to third world countries in the name of "profits", while leaving our country....Consumer based....as in Other countries Making Things, and we work in fast food industries to afford the "cheap" made in Korea, Viet Nam, China, Mexico, etc...... Reagan made a deal with the Devil, and this is Their Hero.......well, 1980's was a lonnnnnnnng time ago, shouldn't they look for something or someone else.
Yes, and now let's have the DNC write up a new set of non-binding resolutions to "stand up" to the fascist agenda of the GOP.
P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C!!
CNN stop the bias! Dede Scozzafava is not a moderate Republican at all she is a liberal Republican. But I guess with a dem party full of extreme libs any liberal would appear to be a moderate.
So the moral of the story is "We do not support individual thinking. You either think like us or get shut out."
Briliiant!
Well, I know of at least two past Republican Presidents that are spinning right about now, Lincoln, who's wondering who these people are that claim to be Republicans, and Reagan who's wondering how many more times he will be misquoted and misrepresented by the new so called Repulbicans. Sounds good on paper but reads, our way is the only way and to disagree with us is not an acceptable choice. The total collaspe of the Rebulican Party is at hand.
Fascinating. None of these "principles" the RNC is suggesting that candidates swear an allegiance to even broach the topic of just how we are paying for our current wars or future wars desired by conservatives. It's one thing to talk about lowering deficits, it's another thing entirely to discuss how deficit neutral wars are. I guess this is why conservatives don't balance budgets.
The once-proud Republican party is becoming a mind-control organization where all members must toe the party line regardless if this is what they agree with or if this is in the best interests of their constituants back home. Their far-right leanings are becoming so severe that they now appeal only to only a certain segment of the population. Their criticism of the President, the dishonest statements they are making concerning him and the downright lies have become absolutely disgusting. This senior citizen and former lifetime Republican supporter has lost all respect and support for what the party has now become. You will never again get my vote.
A Southern Lady
Mao Steele and the RNC really needs to give up their communist agenda of purging their insignificant party and embrace the American ideals of democracy and debate.
This is the most childish and immature bunch of rambling I have ever heard. Do they know how stupid this sounds!
This moderate is getting fed up with the crazy fringe on both sides! I LIKE compromise! I LIKE someone who thinks for himself or herself! I LIKE someone who will, from time to time, vote with the opposite party when he/she feels it is good for the American people.
This is great. As it currently reads it excludes about 70% of the Republicans serving in congress and the senate.
Keep building up those walls.
The Republicans are starting to sound like communists. If you have an opinion of your own you are against them. What they are saying is you are not allowed to think for yourself. This is scary.
Those idiots wouldn't know a socialist if one came up and kissed em right on the mouth. Just another attempt to distract attention away from the real problems they created for our country and for which they now have no solution!
Just another time-wasting effort to divide America and Americans .... shame on the republicans ....!
This party of "no" had 8 years of unbridled power to implement these ideas .... and did NOTHING! Not on health care reform ... not on immigration – NOTHING! Guess what? Reagan is dead and buried: he and his ideas belong to the past century.
Republicans always want to get elected and then can not govern!
These nuckelheads will do and say anything to smear the presidents name, let me tell you you idiots what socialism is, it is when you wake up one morning and go to work you see your office is surrounded by a rope and you cannot go in, because the government had moved in the middle of the night and had taken over this company without even asking or paying anybody, I have lived this and seen it you idiots, who do you think you are going to make believe your lies accept your blind followers, you are jumping up and down and thinking there is going to be a comeback just because of winning two governerships, how stupid can this GOP people be, man of caurse when the EX majority leader holds the constitution in his hand and recited the declaration what do you expect, these are the Iowan GOP's who broght this guy into power and now they want to bring stupid Palin, does that tell you something about the mental state that these GOP's are.
Oh come on! Is that really all you empty headed and empty souled losers have? Socialism? Even Margaret Thacher kept the healthplan going and she is hardly a "socialist" When is your party going to be on the right side of history again? Lincoln freed the slaves. I freely admit that my party was on the wrong side of that one. But when, in the last century have you guys gotten it right? the New deal, Social Security, Civil rights, Mcarthyism, Mericare, Medicaid the list goes on. Evey time you prerdict the end of the world and every time you are wrong. Which one of these ideas would you cancel now? No really which one? I thought so. ( It cracks me up to hear you say that Obamacare put Mediacre in trouble as if you were ever for it in the first place) Shame on you.
The Republican party is a bigger joke than I thought they would be.
Party of inclusion huh?
"RNC Winter Meeting in Hawaii," – that's all I needed to read...
Keep Driving that wedge into the republican party.They are simply destroying themselves.Pretty soon there will be Democrat,Repub,Independant and the new Con party.That equals a loss for everyone but the Democrats.Keep up the good work.
This old gop party is twisted, no doubt
Might as well try something new Republicans. Fear mongering aint workin!
Pathetic! Now the Republicans are imposing rigid litmus tests on their own people. Notice that none of them require their candidates to be rational, thoughtful or open-minded.
Once they were the party of Lincoln. Soon they may be the party of Palin.
Do you think it's any coincidence that the word "Oppose" in some form or another is in 7 out of 10 principles? And that 2 and 9 state almost the same general concept?
Poor GOP...!!Whatever!!
Talk about socialist!
I am thinking we can find a nice gulag in Alaska for Republicans that stray from the party line. Let the purge begin!
The Rush Limbaugh Party wants instead for a fascists agenda they so much embrace
How long before they turn into the Borg and force their remaining members into the collective?
Where do I cast my vote for more of the 'Republican Values' that shot missiles into civilians during the shock and awe?
Government paid for healthcare at age 64= socialism. Government paid healthcare at 65= medicare. RNC do you people really think America can't see the hypocrisy?
I hope these goofy Republicants do this because it will just fracture their wacked party even more....
This resolution has a Fascist ring to it. Perhaps the GOP can adopt a little salute to identify each other – and the non-believers. Get a clue guys. And girls.
Looks like the Repubs won't be using that socialist highway system.
Or that socialist police force.
If you don't cheat on your wife, we won't support you, the top most principle you have to abide by in the Rethug party
Nothing like turning back the clock to the good old days of McCarthyism. Gah, I am completely disgusted/amused by the GOP. I hope to god that Sarah Palin is the 2012 pick, as silly as it is to be even discussing another presidential election.
Just another reason for me to never, Ever, EVER, vote for a Republican again. Those people are Stuck On Stupid.
if government should not run anything why then are the GOP such rabid supporters of a military and then use it to invade other countrys to put in our government they are so against? I can not wait until 2012 when i cast my vote for Obama again.
The republicans are acting like LITTLE BOYS on the play ground who will take their ball and go home if you don't play by my rules. What a bunch of losers.
I agree with almost everyone, especially Brennan from Seattle. I am practically gleeful at the way the RNC is painting itself into a teeny tiny corner. Love your mindless propaganda sheet, folks! Keep that kind of "leadership" coming. We'll settle for those folks you don't accept – let's see, about 80% of the voting populace!
Jim Bopp should be bopped upside his head, what a waste of space.
Yep, that's right, you better tell him what to say, what to do and how to behave. Because you know he does not have a brain to make decisions for any one. After all he is only a rubber stamp, huh????
This is no different than a bunch of street thugs starting a gang in the WH but call themselves Republicans.
The republicans are acting like LITTLE BOYS on the play ground who will take the ball and go home if you don't play by MY rules. What a bunch of losers.
Now.....why would anyone think the gop has a large tent?
They do not.
Ideas? none.
They want people to join but then agree to not disagree?
same ole'same ole'......................................
The New McCarthysism. What else could you expect from the GOP?
It just gets better and better. The Republicans are becoming more entertaining than most movies. Just gather together every Saturday evening with a bowl of popcorn and review the RNC news. Some of the best laughs around. It's becoming a hit in our neighborhood.
They support 'smaller government'
except when it comes to telling other people what to do in their bedrooms and doctor's offices.
How about a resolution not to waste time on utter stupidity and fear mongering?
... oops, that would leave nothing for the GOP to stand for.
I am (WAS) a firm believer in the two party system but this is just too much to swallow. God help us!!!!!
Throw the whole our way or the highway rant out the window and look where America's new aristocracy is holding thier winter meeting. That's right folks, In the middle of the largest recession/depression in decades, the out of touch idiots are going to Hawaii. Here's hoping they stay there!
What the RNC needs to do is draft there version of the Health Care Bill. I'm sick of hearing their bantering. Where is your version, where are your ideas, what are your solutions.
Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian..a politician is a politician....Duck season Wabbit season..Its all the same....
The fact that the RNC is having their Winter meeting in Hawaii says it all.
So they dont want socialism ...how about dictatorship......arm twisting
ha ha ha ha...sweet..
I really really am starting to hate the Republicans. They'd rather have a war than actually help the American people.
Yup. This is all that they have time to do. Great job on Focus! (oooh, look, a Butterfly!)
These Republican blowhards wouldn't know socialism if it bit 'em in the arse. I assume then that they'll give back their Social Security and Medicare money when they receive it. And refuse to drive on public highways, and drink public-utility-owned water, or poop into public-utility-owned sewage systems, or give up their government-provided health insurance. It would be comical if it weren't so pathetic.
If we just stopped writing articles about the GOP and Steele... – would they go away?
If health care reform goes through could there be some diagnostic code that allows us to treat this RNC/ GOP paranoid extremism?
walking the plank is more like it
Mr. Steel, shaft, you need to consult with Newt to see how you are dragging your party down to failure
Ok Republicans....what you're doing is called "McCarthyism".... do you remember THAT term, you idiots ??
Why are the republicans so hell bent on dividing Americans. Why are they so cult like, hateful angry group of people. I would be ashamed to be associated with that group!
Why do republicans say democrats worship Obama, when they obviously "worship" Ronald Reagan!!! one of the so called planks is
WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan also believed the Republican Party should welcome those with diverse views;
And yet this manifesto does the exact opposite?
HAHAHAHAHA...nose, spite, face.
"Michael Bennet, freshman Democratic Congressman from Colorado says, (sic), " If it means losing my seat in Congress I'm voting for the health care bill." Translation, so even though I could be voted out, knowing his fellow Coloradians are enough against it he will lose the election, he will vote the will of the party rather than represent what he suspects is the will of the people. "
No, moron, he's voting his conscience. Anyone with a brain in their head recognizes that the public is vastly uneducated and misinformed about the health care reform issues and the RNC/GOP and news media have done everything in their power to keep it that way because the former doesn't want any success to bolster the Obama administration and the latter doesn't want reall information and truth to stop hyperbolic contrversy from helping them sell ad time/space.
I knew they wouldn't allow my posting of the SS pledging allegience to Herr Hitler in the 1930's but this is strangely similar. You either vow to follow a fat drug addict, and a media-w#ore in their monolithic policies or you get no $. Good-bye Republican party....hello American Taliban
Sadly the Republicans have no intention of doing their job which is to work on legislation. They are totally focussed on how the next elections in 2010 and 2012.
What exactly are they doing to earn their salaries, their future pensions and their gold played health care plans? Shame on them for putting their quest for power ahead of their country!
I don't think Republicans know what 'support' means. You don't support something by simply opposing something else. It is becoming sad that there are no new ideas coming out of the party.
ironic; i always associated fear of dissent and thought-control with socialism. typical hypocrisy from the right...
I wonder if anyone in the republican't party even knows what the word 'socialist' means. What they're counting on is the rest of us not knowing what it means or being able to see that it's just not a valid charge against Democrats. They think the simple act of name-calling makes it so. This is a party headed for oblivion, and the sooner the better!
The incessant Chicken Little cries from the GOP, and now the RNC as well, of "socialist," "communist," "Marxist," etc., are so ridiculously hyperbolic that they are utterly devoid of any real meaning. It is same tired old strategy of fear mongering that has been the only arrow in the GOP's quiver for decades.
If the GOP has any hopes of regaining status as a major political party, maybe they should work on some actual ideas instead of shoveling out their moronic pablum.
I actually hope they do it. Move farther to the right. Normal, rational, thinking people will shy away from the faschist philosophy of the republican party, realizing that the "my way or highway" of the bush republicans will take us to ruin.
What we need are more independents – the two party system needs to go.
Reagan was 30 years ago. No wonder most people consider them out of touch dinosaurs.
Here we go reverting back to the 40's and 50's when it was so popular and easy to make an exclusive organization. I cannot believe that the GOP would do this whether they are conservative or whatever. What are they thinking and who is doing the plotting and planning? Are they now denying anyone who disagrees with them a place in their little kingdom.
Who is this man from Indiana and what is his agenda? Who does he represent?
What does this say about the Republican Party and their values. Everyone should be welcome to the table and their beliefs should be aired and debated. To discriminate on any level is just wrong. This is no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln.
Yep, the Repubs are headed for Hawaii this January and the media cameras will be highly restricted. The leaders don't want the sumptuous, luxurious, lavish, and opulent accommodations on display for their potentially savvy fellow Americans to see. Their security guards will make sure of that (maybe because they could be leased from Blackstone!)
And it will all be in the name of trying to keep it all for the pirates who are bulldozing in the cash to keep them capable for bulldozing in the cash. Robin in reverse (Robin Hood, that is!)
"we're open to ideas, but, You have to agree with us most of the time"
ya...okay.....that's gonna get you far
This is a big mistake, looking for a party idealogy that will exclude all others. Then they claim it is Reagan republicanism. That certainly was not what Pres. Reagan stood for in his leadership. He was an inclusive person in words and in deeds. He wanted Freedom and Liberty for every citizen even those who disagreed with him.
If the GOP decided to become a Party of exclusion than it will be excluding itself from leadership going forward. This terend is not something new in the GOP, and is one of the reasons I left the party years ago after Reagan.
The leadership of this country will have to be someone who can include everyone under the Constitution of Liberty.
Someone needs to take one of these "planks" and hit members of the Republican party who supports this garbage in the head with it. All this does is further divide a country that needs to come together. People, we are at a crossroads in our history, and things are quickly unraveling. Instead of our so called leaders coming together and sharing ideas that will bring our nation out of this funk we are in. They come up with lists that don't accomplish crap. True moderates and true independents are sick of this partisan childish bickering that accomplishes nothing.
If this current healthplan is such a concern to them because of "socialism" and claims of unconstitutionality. Then they need to do the following thing to legitamize their concern.
1. Stop all Federal dollars to States for Education
2. Repeal Medicare in its entirety
3. Stop all Federal dollars to States for the national highway system
4. Disban the Faith Based Inititiatives program
5. Disban the USDA food stamp program
And the list goes on and on and on. These outcries are nothing more than political posturing. Either be real
Okay, meant to say Regan was 20 years ago. GOP is still full of out of touch dinosaurs!
"We are open to diverse views, but you do have to agree with us most of the time."
Does anyone else find this comment hilarious?
They are freaks. So, what about the first stimulus put into effect during the reign of King George...I guess they need to change #1, and the one calling for troop surges...do I hear bigger military....last time I checked the military was part of the government. Hey guys, do you want bigger or smaller government? It sounds like you don't know what you want except to do away with all the people in this country who don't look like you, act like you, believe what you believe....if that's what you envision, then when you take over I'll be glad to move and become a citizen of a true free country.
I wish the GOP would denounce Social Security and Medicare (well known socialist programs) and demand that all REPUBLICAN recipients/members of these programs return all benefits they have received thus far and opt out when they reach the age of eligibilty for the above mentioned socialist programs. The GOP should not be allowed to pick and choose what is good for this very diverse country. This resolution nonsense seems to be an effort to establish some for of GOP dictatorship. What happens to free speech?
The GOP sounds more and more like Iran's government. Either you do as we say or you'll be punished. What's happened to our democracy!!
I wouldn't put too much stock in this. It's a resolution brought up by the fringe of the party for a meeting that hasn't happened yet, and probably won't even come close to becoming policy. However, Republicans being super-right wing gets a lot of press these days. Don't expect to read the news and actually read anything "new".
Better be careful with that label. First, it most certainly does not apply. Look at the definition, not what Rush Limbaugh says. Second, Bush crossed the line a number of times, sometimes arguably illegally to a point where he was the closed thing to an monarch we have had in our history. The Republicans did not have the where-withall to call him out when he walked on the Bill of Rights and other questionable acts. It is much better to campaing on the strength of ideas and proposals and not focus on trying to put the other one down as a way of propping yourself up!
I would be more open to the Republican party and this document if they would be specific and could withstand scrutiny. This document says they want market based health care reform. The bill they put out last month is a total joke. It says they want to win the wars. Really, didn't we just let the Republicans fight the wars for the last 8 years? I don't see that we won anything there. They also want to cut taxes AND balance the budget, something they've been saying since Ronald Reagan. Well, let's hear them identify what programs they plan to cut and see if the math adds up and see how well people like those ideas. The Republicans haven't ever balanced a budget.
The only think RNC cares about is whether they will win in 2010 and possibly 2012. Does that tell you anything at all? Reagan kept his popularity high, just to win a second term, and of course, his plans deepened us into this deep hole of debt. And you can still see the GOP still worship their no. 1 debtor... nice.
.charlie in Maine......Eh....she is a socialist. Most European countries are.
That's what makes the US unique
WOW ! our way or the Hi way. No thinking for yourself, just say and do what we tell you to. Talk about a communist state, they want it. This is way too far right for most americans. The GOP has to be on its way out as a major politcal party.
I would assume that the RNC will not want "socialized" war fare either. Lets privatize our military......then watch the cost sky rocket. I'm sure the insurance companies will be more than willing to pick up the cost of the wounded huh.
I think this is a good tool. There is almost no difference between the two main parties now. Please Mr. Steel, draw the line and let the american people choose who we want. I wish the other side of the isle would do the same. This in no way means that there shouldn't be compromise on issues. That is what the two chambers are for, debate and compromise to meet the amercan peoples wishes. Both parties have melded and the lies on both sides of the isle are unquestionable.
Great! When will they call for the disbanding of our socialist police departments, socialist fire departments, socialist military, the selling of our socialist highways, closing our VA hospitals and telling our veterans to fend for themselves?
The hypocrisy of these clowns is entertaining, but dangerous to our country.
Jesus was a Socialist!
My turn
My turn
My turn
Republicans are fascists.
OOOOOO that was fun! Thank goodness we have FINALLY injected name calling into our national political disource. Now we're finally getting somewhere.
That's amazing. Invoking the name of Saint Ronnie Reagan so many times and calling for smaller government, lower deficits, lowering the national debt, lower taxes, and opposing amnesty when it was Reagan who:
Increased the size of government
Exploded the deficit
Almost tripled the national debt
Raised taxes (mostly on the poor and middle class)
Granted amnesty to illegal immigrants
That's awesome. Keep up the great work, guys. May I suggest nominating Sarah Palin in 2012? Thanks.
This somewhat surprises me since Reagan allowed an illegal immigrant amnesty. The Republicans in the Senate don't want competition by allowing more players in the health insurance business. Apparently, Mr. Steele isn't aware that the health insurance companies are already rationing health care by what they will and won't cover.
This is showing how pure people must be to be a Republican. That is going to shrink the tent. The Democrats seem to have the other problem that they allow so many to be a part of the party that they have trouble holding it together for votes at times.
I love it! When will the purges and show trials begin? Will Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and other "moderates" be airbrushed out of GOP party pictures?
And to think these are the people running around calling Obama a "socialist" and a "Nazi." ROTFLOL!
I agree with Steph! When are reps on BOTH sides of the fence going to remember "By the people, for the people"?? In this day and age quit wasting time building walls and drafting rhetoric and start finding ways to find out what your CONSTITUENTS want.
And if you disagree with the Democrats you are disparaged as a non-caring, greedy, no-this-or-that. Look in a mirror. I served this country, defended the Constitution, and I get to express my opinions too. I am (generally) a Republican. The extreme end of the Republican party does not have a monopoly on being correct, neither does the Democratic party, in spite of the ignorant comments below. None of us is a smart as all of us. Quit complaining, quit pointing, and present answers that include, not exclude. Those that say the other party (all of the other party) is always wrong are the last people to listen to.
So money to kill people in the past several years is ok but money to help people is bad. Can you republicans out there that support this nonsense, make sense out of this? Hope you can because the majority of this country sees things differently that the republicans do.
Outstanding! I wish the Republicans the very best of luck in their witch hunt against real fiscal conservatives, as well as those who refuse to pervert science to satisfy whatever right-wing pseudo-religious agenda happens to be the flavor of the day, who deem the crony capitalism and anti-free enterprise policies of the current Republican party, best manifested in the monopolistic health insurance insurance industry, too much to stomach any more. Of course, any veteran of Afghanistan or Iraq has had to already reach their limit rubbing elbows with a party of chickenhawks ready to prove their manhood with the the blood of anyone else other than themselves.
once again, they prove them selves to be the party of no
GOP = PARTY OF NO
NO IDEAS
NO FUTURE
Just when you think the Republicans will sweep in 2010 you get reminded at how self defeating they are. They really dont get it.
Maybe we'll be lucky, and all the "non-conforming" Republicans will split off and form their own party.
I find it ironic that item 1 calls for lower deficits, but item 6 calls for spending more money we don't have in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But then...nobody claimed these guys were internally-consistent. Or that they made sense.
Man, they have turned into the Republican Communist Party.
Everything the Republicans are doing right now have parallels to Mao's Communist Peoples Party in China. You have to think a certain way and it you don't you are PURGED just like the Republicans are doing now.
since when did the Republican Party start embracing COMMUNIST ideals?
It's a sad day for America and American FREEDOM that the Republicans are doing this to their own party.
The Republicans and their cronies are the "socialists" here!!!!
The only asset Michael Steele has is that he is "tall". Otherwise
there is no substance in this man. Well, in other words, "Michael
Steele is a 'puppet" and and "airhead."
The Republican Party wants to do away with ALL ENTITLEMENTS!
Yhey "pretend" they like "Medicare" just to stop "the Health care bill
the American People need so badly, but it is all "pretend and lies!!!!
Remember, folks, Bush and his cronies tried to "PRIVATIZE SOCIAL
SECURITY AND PUT THE MONEY ON WALL STREET"!!!
The RNC is headed on a course of destruction. Anyone who supports these clowns is blind to history. Attacking all who disagree and basically requiring a oath of obedience. What's next? Night of the Long Knives?
Ideology has totally taken over the republican party. Forget flexibility, forget independence, forget free thinking, forget the will of the people - simply follow a hardcore 10 step ideological plan. Heck, no need for intelligence to be a republican, just follow the book.
Submit to ideology, hate the media, hate universities, and hate the judicial system. Sounds quite fascist to me.
Dominican mama 4 Obama......I think you shou look up the word Socialism. Your way off.
And Democrats will vote anyway you want as long as you pencil $100-300 million in to the bill for their state.
Looks like me that the Republicans are loading up all their guns so they can start shooting themselves in the feet again..."Dance! Dance!"
I guess "Liberal" isn't strong enough anymore?
I thought the whole story could be summed up with just the fact that the RNC is meeting in HAWAII in January. Let's see, Hawaii would be considered a Democratic state since most of their Senate & Congressional representatives are Democrats, so the RNC certainly isn't going there because it's a friendly Republican haven. Are you telling me the mainland 49 states didn't have an acceptable meeting site??? The RNC needs to fly all the way across the country & another 3,000 miles of Pacific ocean in order to hold their meeting (especially during cold January)???? For east coasters that will be about an 12+ hour flight– but the RNC couldn't find anything closer?? They complain about every dime Obama spends trying to salvage the economy, but they don't hesitate to spend God knows how much to hold their meeting in beautiful tropical warm (and expensive) Hawaii during the dead of winter. Let's face it– the Republican party is still the party of the wealthy we don't give a flip throw it in your face hypocrites.
It's a "bona-fide" way to insure the Republicans total failure over the next decade or so.. As a former Republican I wouldn't vote for this farce of a party if it was the only party to choose from.
The leaders of that group can't understand what regressing backwards seems to mean. As if getting back to their roots will solve the problem. I think the problem is they have a grand case of root rot and unless you replace the soil quickly it will die. New members with fresh ideas is their only hope I'm afraid.
The republican party is having a hard time being united right now as it is, do they realize that this might serve as a divisive measure rather than a cohesive one?
Wow.. way to help create bipartisanship guys... Are they trying to split the Republican party into two separate parties – the moderate "normal" conservatives and the "right-wing loony, agree-with-us-or-you-die" conservatives? Did you catch the part, "We are open to diverse views, but you have to agree with us most of the time." Sorry, didn't know it was illegal to have your own thoughts if you were a Republican!
This is ridiculous? When Bush41 was president, did anybody create a resolution that said "stop pushing our country towards facism?" No! Maybe they should have!!
Today's conservatives posture loudly but when it comes to real fiscal discipline they are pretty lame. Under Bush it was like pigs at the trough. It was embarassing.
Ahh... at last a NEW RELIGION, complete with its own (10) Commandments...
Just what America needs...
I am a lifelong member of the Republican Party, and I can definately say these platforms are garbage. They need to try something along the lines of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or even something like the Contract With America. They need to support a Balanced Budget Ammendment, Term Limits, Limits on Campaign Contributions, NO CZARS, and severly limit the authority of the courts that have hijacked the legislative process with court rulings. Personally I do not care about abortion, same sex marriages, and health care. This is a free country and it is set up so that EACH State will make its own decisions on these matters. So my warning to the Republicans, you are walking on VERY thin ice with the conservatives in this country, and unless you connect real fast with the public in this country, we are gonna dump you in the trash heap of history along with the Obamacrats. Got it?
This is ridiculous!
Socialism as in Obama bailing out Wall Street? Oh, my bad, that was the GOP that bailed them out, after the robbed the US Treasury and ripped off regular citizens.
Quick memo for Michael Steele, you've got a real image problem. Not all Americans are as stupid as the GOP ilk that thinks Sarah Palin is the answer to all of the US's problems. It was under the GOP that our current dilemma came to fruition.
Please please please let the RNC pass this resolution. Then it will cause the Republican party to shatter into a million little pieces. Maybe the far right should splinter off and create a new third party; the new American Taliban. It would be appropriate considering how many ideals they actually share (denigration of women, oligarcy, wanting to silence anyone who disagrees with them, using fear to get people to do what they want).
Nothing the GOP does surprises me. Their complete lack of any reasonable thought is simply amazing. I simply don't have the words to respond to yet again, UTTER NONSENSE from the RNC – when will someone in this party have the GUTS to stand up and say ENOUGH!
What a joke! Obama is no socialist, he is a moderate democrat. I think the GOP should investigate why they allowed their party to be taken over by fascists.
By their own definition the republicans are also socialist. They don't want to get rid of medicare/medicaid. And they had a big hand in expanding these programs. I guess they only want their own socialism. They only use this word because it bring up fears in Americans. It cracked me up to see people in town hall meetings saying that they didn't want Obama's socialism because it might lessen their medicare. Give me a break. Only the old and young should get free medical help, but the middle class hard working Americans don't deserve it? Hypocrits.
Basically the Republicans just want to destroy everything. They destroyed America. They are trying to destroy Obama with lies. And, now they are destroying themselves. Maybe they can finish themselves off before 2010 if we are lucky. Go Gopers!
It's easy to mislead a nation who reads at sixth grade level. Americans think of the old Soviet Union when they hear socialism. They don't think of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Canada nor England. They are our allies. Those old mean socialist(sarcasm). Lord help us.
You have to give the repubs credit. They know they're going to win in a landslide next year no matter who runs against the dem incumbent. Might as well get your house in order now and promote the far right candidate, since that's the person who'll be taking over the seat.
In the dictionary:
socialist economy (noun) : an economic system based on state ownership of capital .
This is the direction that the present administration has been heading without forethought or pause. Stae Owned Banks, Car Companies, Health Care, and the Defense Industry, what is next??? What is left???
Once the Health Care System is ran by the state, then innovation and new medical technics will be regulated away. There will be no motivation for improvement, because with the government it is always the lowest bidder who wins!!! Not the best or most creative.
The GOP needs to take off their tinfoil hats,quit accepting BRIBES from Banks, Oil, Big Pharm, Insurance companies and actually do something besides point at the democrats and shout silly propaganda.
By aliening themselves with the extreme right ring they are alienating us TRUE CONSERVATIVES. Stop being the party of NO and put some legislation out their that will help the people you are supposed to represent, not the people who represent $$$. Repeal the 2005 credit act written by the credit card companies, make a REAL energy policy that doesn't fund terrorists with big oil money and enact fair trade policies not the "free trade" BS that ship american jobs to slave wage countries.
For what it's worth Charlie, it was the Republicans in the south that pushed desegregation, not the Democrats. It just so happened that Johnson was a Democrat in the White House, but he was opposed by his party on this issue.
This is funny. They call it anti-socialism, but they're making a list of ideas to dictate the way they think. Sounds like a brainwashing dictatorship to me.
Not sure that you need a resolution but I would agree with the 10 points they have listed! These are points that most folks with common sense would agree with but than again there are not many folks in Washington with common sense. Anyone else read them before you posted??
It will be great with the "unoffical" Republicans are out of the caucus and the party becomes as small as their ideas are.
God forbid a politician votes his/hers conscience! Gotta keep 'em in line and what better way to threaten independent thinkers than with money$$?? The repubs should be ashamed of themselves.
Oy!
things are starting to get a little crazy...don't you think?
Geez, they have put so much energy into idolizing Ronald Reagan that it seems they now believe their own hype. I won't be surprised if they start talking about digging him up and sending him around the country with Paris Hilton, (whoops, I meant Sarah Palin).
???? Well I will say this much – the GOP is never dull. Dull-witted certainly, but not boring. They say socialist because they know it is a hot-button word in the US (no where else but in the US – Wow!) The rest of these rules are hilarious in their stupidity. Land of the free – as long as you do and think exactly what we tell you to....sounds familiar but not in a good way.
# 7 "We support the containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat."
Sounds like two more wars to me. Do we have enough troops to be fighting in four countries?
So leave this so called socialism and join the communist republican party. You must do as your dictator says... is there some irony here that I just can't help to notice. You guys have gone nuts.
I STILL HAVE MY GUNS, I STILL HAVE MY FREEDOM AND I VOTED FOR CHANGE BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN IT.
OBAMA 2012
This kind of action could very well be the first saw marks on the last pole of their "Conservative Tent."
I also want to comment on this...
It's astounding to me that the people screaming the loudest about keeping Government out of their healthcare are the very same people who are screaming for government intervention in health care for women.
What idiocy.
How about the 40% of Americans that do not pay taxes start kicking in their fare share to help fund the supposed health care reform...
Ya, Obama is such a "socialist" that the DOW is at a 13 month high and heading for 11,000. The GOP are a joke.
Who's side were we on in WWII, the Fascists or the Socialists? Hint: Hitler wasn't a socialist.
The current GOP wants to turn this country into a modern Nazi Germany!
I'm wondering how low the GOP has to be before they cut out this kind of self defeating nonsense. You're not going to win elections this way.
They're either going to have to reform themselves or a third party is going to split off from them . Bets are on whether the third party will be the Moderate-Big Business guys or the Know-Nothing Teabaggers.
My prediction is wherever the Teabaggers end up (controlling the GOP or in their own party), they will be the ones that dry up and blow away.
Not acknowledging established fact (you know, "reality") will generally, in the long run, fold up your tent.
Tea Party members = modern day brownshirts!
So theyr'e against socialism,eh?Didn't seem to mind having a Republican Governor of the Alaskan Soviet Socialist Republic.But I guess that's ok since the State of Alaska is distributing the profits from the oil industry to the people.Theyr'e now for Containment of North Korea not the Defeat of North Korea.Why not?We have troops in an active war zone(No peace treaty has ever been signed-just an armistice setting the border temporarily where it is today).Didn't we declare victory in Iraq under President Bush?(MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!)
No new ideas- again.
The Party of No has finally gone completely off the rails. Palin/Beck in 2012 should finish them off.
This is childish. They can't even bring themselves to sound like serious, responsible legislators by referring to the current, duly elected POTUS as "President Obama!"
Just when things were starting to settle down, the RNC does this. By the mere act of seriously considering it, the Republicans have emphasized themselves as a closed white man's political party. Steele is no example. In the black community he is regarded as an "oreo" which means black on the outside and white on the inside.
What a stupid thing to do!!
Looks like a good idea to me. Some of the comments on here make me laugh. Just a whiff of the truth and you can see the recoil, the snap-back, the knee-jerk defensive posturing.
When did our Federal Government take over nearly every aspect of our daily lives? Was I asleep? Why do we allow either party to control our livliehoods and inject itself so deeply upon our individual rights and freedoms? I can only pray that in 2010 and 2012, Independents rise up and take control of our Government and rid ourselves of these power monger elitists, both right and left. States rights is where Government should being delivered to us from, if we don't like it, then we would have recourse within our individuals States. That is what our Constitution mandates, not this massive conglomeration of Corporate and special interest monies picking our pockets and destroying our Nation from the inside out!
Just wait for another 20 years Repubs, you will be out on the street with no way to get back into the fray once the over 60 crowd of today is dead and gone. Take a look around you, while everything in the world is changing(climate, economy, international relations), your answer is to keep everything the same as it once was. You can't stop progress, although you will continue to try. Progress is not socialism, free will is not unpatriotic, religious puritanical prudish zeal is not conservatism, and your ten point plan on how to isolate yourselves from mainstream America is not a winning strategy.
Wake up! If what Obama and the democrats is not Socialism, then I don't know what is. Why is it thyat the democrats are in favor of slicing up the pie differently, rather than making a bigger pie for everyone to share? We are already seeing signs of business.... SMALL business .... laying people off because they cannot afford the approaching taxes and regulatory costs. We are headed for a total welfare state of entitlements, if we arent already there.
I love it! These GOP idiots are just making the Democrats job easier. You keep appealing to the lunatic fringe of your party and we will just keep living in the White House!
Republicans are Communists...let's all chant over and over again. Republicans can't do anything and yet the only thing they can do is complain. Republicans call Obama a Socialist..they don't even know what Socialism means! Republicans do what's best, deny Americans of a better, more affordable healthcare. They don't care about people, they just say and do whatever they can to get one of their own elected. This is the most UN-AMERICAN thing Republicans do...deny people of healthcare! Millions of Americans don't have the means to pay for healthcare and Republicans are denying YOU of it!
Michael Steele is a snotty nose whiney brat who is jealous of President Obama.
He wants to be liked, and appreciated and the RNC is just using him for window dressing. Steele is a useless clown who will never have my respect and the respect of most sane people. He's a yellow-bellied crud-grabber who wallows on the bottom of the GOP cesspool. Come up for air you filthy wretch of a human being. Oh, on second thought, don’t bother, stay down there.
Wow – this is a little scary – conform or you are out. Any free-thinkers will be shown the door.
I hope it goes through – the aftermath will be very entertaining
The best thing so far, GOP... yeah weed out all those moderates and liberal Republicans. Send them over to them Democrats... who needs them?
The fundamental problem with carbon-based pollution is that we all know that the very cheapest and most efficient way to burn fuel is to let the outputs go into the water or the atmosphere. To change that behavior, we have to alter the profit dynamics so that not creating carbon is more effective. Cap and trade is the most market based approach that a government can impose.
The fundamental promise of the Repulicans is that they can magically fix the problem by simply offering the promise of market forces (of course there are none). Then 10 years from now we conclude that we need to have even more forceful rules. Daaa.
I agree with 7 out of 10 and am a Republican, so am I out of the party now?
Good idea, down with socialism! No more publicly funded police or fire stations. Privatize the roads and military! Ban public schools! Eliminate all forms of insurance because they function on transfering wealth from those not making insurance claims to those that are in the form of insurance premiums! Privatize the legal system while we are at it, too!
SOCIALISM BAD!
I hope I'm laying on the sarcasm thick enough for some people.
This has nothing to do with Mr Steele. Realistically, Mr. Bopp is at odds with Mr. Steele and voted against his nomination as RNC Chair. The real agenda is to use someone he dislikes,and his (Steele's)supporting of the less conservative candidate in the NY 23rd district race as reasoning to establish rules that will in fact restrict the RNC party members opinions even more. This is just more hate-mongering (exclusion of certain peoples, groups, and opinions that differ) under guise as embracing the concerns of a black man. I would like to think that Mr. Steele is no fool and can see through the same old tricks that have been used since before slavery.
I am VERY surprised that the media and the populus hasn't pointed out this new Republican "surge" of neo-conservatism as just what it is; "Racist groups with fear of losing ground against their biased way of life that has gone on for centuries".
Today's cry for "Conservatism" is just Racism under cover. A person doesn't have to adapt racist views to be a conservative Christian. I am both! To substantiate this, I'll be shocked if this is printed.
Too funny.
How is having the government decide which relationships are valid and which aren't (#8) and creating a large and expensive anti-illegal immigration bureaucracy (#5) correlate with limited government?
The Republicans have no plans to help this country period! Its a tent filled with idiots and racist people like Glenn Beck and the entire Fix Noise crowd
Pigs. I bet half can't spell socialism and the other half can't define it. Just another scare tactic from the radicals.
WHEREAS: Ronald Reagan supported those with diverse views,
RESOLVED: If you have diverse views we will destroy you politically.
I cannot stop laughing at this. As Bugs would say of Steele, "Ehhh, what a maroon!"
So what is next for the GOP? A strong statement against public libraries? Perhaps ending "free" public education? No more public roads (hmm. Republicans in Arizona did close highway rest areas...). These guys wouldn't know "socialism" if it bit 'em. More pathetic fear mongering.
These 10 Key Policy Positiions couldn't be better if they had been written by the Ministry of Truth. Hmmm . . . I wonder how Jesus would vote? And in regards to #5, I seem to recall is was President Reagan who last presided over an "amnesty" to illegal aliens.
The modern Republican is so lost right now and there is no party, short of Blue Dogs that represent fiscal responsibility any longer. Give us back our party and tell the religious fanatics and Ruby Ridge wackos to go hijack someone else's party or form their own.
Get a backbone GOP leadership and kick these ilk to the sidelines...
The GOP needs to stop behaving like wingnuts. Reasonable people do not take them seriously. No chance of regaining any credibility until they ditch the kookery.
These idiot Republicans are committing political suicide by opposing EVERYTHING. I'll be wearing all black on 11/4/10 because the G.O.P. will R.I.P.
Um... By these standards, the GOP would not have supported Reagan. In 1986 Reagan signed off on amnesty for illegal aliens. He also supported the Brady Bill.
By God how BRILLIANT of the GOP. As the country struggles with the economy, the rising cost of health care and the lack of jobs, the GOP focuses on who dared to cross them. BRILLIANT!
Ronald Regan wouldn't be able to join this "conservative" group. He raised taxes! He used diplomacy! He added to social programs! The RNC is destroying itself.
oh yes come you huddle masses, unless your poor, sick, minority, female, have a conscious, care about the environment etc. we are the party of inclusion if you think exactly like we do. what a joke.
I fully support this move by the RNC. Maybe this will be the catalyst for the creation of a truely moderate 3rd party. This is going to exile any common sense repubs that are left.
Isn't it Fascist to tell people exactly what opinions and positions they must have? The Republicans can't continue to do this and say that they are for freedom. It just doesn't work that way.
It is ironic that the RNC would use a word like socialist, after we just endured a long run of their "dictator" style of party control from the House, to the Senate, to the White House. Those years reminded me more of the U.S.S.R than the U.S.!
Wackos, Wackos, Wackos. Don't want to believe its all of them but they keep coming out with this kind of stuff.
More political grandstanding from the party of no ideas!
Hey Republicans Party: the American people will not vote for you until you propose ACTUAL solutions!
So now we know that the Republicans are the party of mediocrity given that the passing grade to be a Republican is only 70%.
Way to go, Republicans. Make that wall higher. Keep on building it. Higher and higher !! The higher you make it, the more people you wall out. Most walls eventually fail, but I hope this one succeeds until it blocks all sound coming from the inside.
No Mr. Steele, It's time for Corporate America to take a backseat to the American Taxpayer. Pull your weight for once and let the middle class recover from the Corporate driven GOP.
Not a Republican but the course the Democratic Left is pursuing makes it kind of hard to swallow for many of those Americans amongst us that have lost loved ones, fathers, brothers and sons in the last few wars fighting Communism. Korea and Vietnam, 10,000 a year dead, for what, for Obama and his cronies to cram some more Government controlled programs up our arse while picking our pockets or for some GOP dolt like GW to fatten up his corporate buddies, both parties are sucking our lives out of us!? INDEPENDENTS AWAKE AMONG US 2010, 2012!
We're open to diverse views. Except when we're not. Which is all of the time.
What a waste of space the RNC is.
So Be it call it what you want I want the same health care you guys have. America lets stand up to these liars, haters, and losers, who can't accept the fact we American people VOTED for CHANGE! Get it!
Gotta love the continuing circular firing squad of the Republican virus. Hopefully, some day, the virus can be completely eradicated from our society and we can finally move forward.
Hmm. Whatever happened to the "big tent"? Honestly, now, are there any SANE people out there who really feel at home in the GOP? If you don't toe the "party line", voluntarily or otherwise, you are out. Sounds like Communism or Fascism to me.
The so called moderate Republican in New York was a liberal demorat dressed in the mantle of being a Republican and therefore should not have been selected nor endorsed by any Republican.
Steele needs to vome clean and stop his viscious ways. This was man without a job when he ran for Lt Governor in MD, who was picked because of his race to attrack votes from Baltimore City ( of which) he failed.
Steele actually took a salary form campaighn contributions from the Governor race he was a part.
Now he plays the role of "fiscal conservative." What was it Mike when you used funds rasied for the campaign , perhaps socialism??
The GOP likes to call themselves "The Party of The Big Tent," as long as you agree with their right-wing, fundementalist conservative Christain values.
I say no thanks.
Yep, there's that "big tent" again!
I think the RNC should go ahead and implement this. Probably the true nature of the party will be exposed. I'll bet that the big time screamers are just a handful. The rest are probably normal Americans with good common sence. The shouters tend to drown and keep the moderates off. Hopefully, we the people will end up with a third viable party.
Are these people STUPID. We have been a socialist country since FDR.
Conservatives: "Conservatism" means to preserve established traditions and to resist any changes therefrom. Folks, herein lies the problem with conservative philosophy. The world is constantly changing and we must change with times if we are to survive or play a key leadership in the world! Good bye conservatism! Throw away modern medicine, make women go back to be housewives, stifle technological advancement, damage the earth, etc. Nut wings!
Wow, this guy isn't serious....we are open to diverse opinions, but you have to agree with us most of the time? Who sounds like the socialist now? Everyone has a different point of view and brings something new to the table that may be otherwised overlooked. Every politician has a different population of constituients they have to look out after....just because one group isn't as FAR RIGHT as a small minority of it's party doesn't mean they should be branded with a Scarlett letter. What a jerk.
The New Republican Party – Goosestepping like it's 1936.
What I find to be so remarkable...the same Palin/Limbaugh/Beck clowns who usually babble on are not saying one darn thing. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...cat got yo' tongue? Even they are stumped by this GOP jibberish.
Bravo Bravo Bravo – it's about time SOMEONE stood up for the American voters and our wishes.
The reason Michael Bennett would rather loose his seat if it means getting the health bill through is because he is CONCERNED about his constituants. In spite of the GOP trying to UNeducate the public on this issue, this bill WILL PASS because its the right thing to do for ALL AMERICANS. Unlike the GOP that only consider themselves and the rich, those who vote for this bill have all Americans in mind.
Well, it's about time the RNC regained its backbone and rededicated itself to opposing socialism / marxism / feminism / abortionists / gays / and anything else wrong with this country!
....and just about time too! 'bout lost me. Had a bumber sticker at last election saying "Vote McCain, better democrate than Socialist" ...and still feel more and more strongly that way. SAVE THE REPUBLIC"
Wait, wait they want to "fight" President Obamas supposed "socialist" agenda but they want to put in place a few things in their platform that they stand for and anyone who does not agree with them is out? Forgive me but isn't that "facists" the state is always right and those that disagree with them are out? WOW, what has happened to the Republican party? No wonder the American people do not believe they can govern the FREE.
While I do wholeheartedly believe that much of the president & co's ideals are firmly rooted in socialism, and shouldn't be sugarcoated as anything else, in a way, I feel like this is perhaps spending time pointing out the obvious.
How does the old saying go? Give them enough rope....
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck...
it's a socialist.
lol being that my parents left a communist CUBA / country where if you didnt agree with majority / thought process you where blacklisted / thrown in jail etc.. this sounds alot like the republican party so sad.. this is why i voted for a democrat for the first time and voted for Obama. please let me knwo when a real republican party shows up so i can vote for them. other wise keep your real socialist views and communist views to yourself.. funny these people are screaming red flag red flag.. and there worried of thought control. wake up people! im ready for a THird party this is CRAZY!!!!!!!
do the republicans really beleive that we are a socialist society. there are people that will have food for thanksgiving while the republicans will travel to hawaii for a MEETING. this is ridiculous. i thought this was a country founded by the people, for the peole, and of the people. i don't ever remember saying that it would be okay for these politicians to use MY hard earn money and fly twice the length of this country to go on a tropical meeting vacation. people have no jobs, houses, food or money and these republicans are jetting around the country complaining about socialism. what a wonderful world.
This is really getting to be a bit much. Do any of the tea-bag nuts even know how to define socialism?
what a joke! it's such an embarrassment
Keep moving futher and futher to the right. They will consolidate their base and lose the majority of the independents and moderate republicans ensuring another democrate victory in 2010, 2012. The RNC is becoming a fringe organization without mainstream appeal. New York 23rd district should have been a wake up call when it came to a Republican verse the far right conservatives the back lash put a democrate in a seat not held since the Civil War.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Well, guess what GOP? Our health care system is BROKEN!
Don't underestimate these extremists. Germans did in the late 1920s, and look what happened to them. If these right-wing nuts don't get their way, they will undoubtedly try through fraud (of elections) or outright violence against their opponents. Do not underestimate them or their agenda. This is not a game.
The GOP's intolerance for any free thought or difference of opinion is truly illuminating – their members stifle thought, they stifle freedom, yet scream at anyone who disagrees with them as being "socialist."
It's long past time that this party die off, or be marginalized as the extremist authoritarian party it has become – it's a cancer to the lifeblood of America. Let a new fiscal conservative party rise up in its place, and hopefully our nation can recover from the infection known as the modern GOP.
(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's "stimulus" bill;
I'm sorry "Obamas "stimulus" does anyone else see something wrong with that statement? IT was the repbulicans that put forth the first "stimulus" of $750. billion not Obama, get your facts right....
How can anyone that has common sense argue this administration isn't pushing us towards socialism? Gov't run financial institutions, Gov't run car manufacturers, Gov't run health care paid for by wealth distributions, and even today a "war tax" to have the rich fund the war effort was proposed!!! Welcome to the "Change and Hope" you all so desperately wanted, and that you were all dumb enough to believe in!! The Mayans predicted the end in 2012.....let's just hope we get there!!!!
7 of the 10 resolutions Support by oppsing, one support the Defense of Marriage Act (who opposes same sex marriage). The other 2 support act of wars (who by definition opposse some other country).
Well i guess that to be a real "conservative", you have to oppose to everything in order to include and " welcome diverse view".
It is now official from the Republicants. Socialism for the rich. Capitalism for the poor!
I would love to hear Ronald Reagan's family speak out about this? They must be humiliated to have his name used by these fools!
Well said, Sgt USMC.
"We are open to diverse views, but you do have to agree with us most of the time."
And in the GOP:
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Michal Steele is a coward and a fool. Is he TRYING to alienate a large portion of his moderate party members? Just so he can appease the religious right? Sad little man.
Reagan is now truly dead.
I think this is a GREAT idea. Republicans need something to hone their message, even if it's a message I don't agree with. If they believe so strongly in it then let them hold their members to it and proclaim it to the world! Hopefully this act will serve to clear the Republican party of the few reasonable people they have left so they can rightfully become the Libertarians they already are.
You didn't know, did you Democrats, that there are actually MORE than two parties in this country? You have to watch something other than msnbc to find out such things.
Instead of wasting their time and our money why not work with Democrats in shaping a HealthCare Bill that will really help Americans who are left without. But they don't have to worry about that-they have great coverage. What a bunch of freaks!
Mr. Steel,
You still haven’t figured out that you are the Joke of the GOP yet?
They only reason you got elected was due to the fact our President is black
So you might want to thank him for your job. Obama is the ONLY reason the GOP hand picked you. Trust me when they don’t need you for the appearances anymore, you will resume your post as unacceptable.
Coercing the GOP to support specific party platforms, is a dangerous thing to do. I would never vote for someone who was more beholden to a political party, than to the voters, myself.
If they aren't their own person, I will vote for someone else.
That's great. Just keep running the party further and further to the right. It will ensure that dems will be in power for the next twenty years and make the GOP the opposition party.
Just put it plan and simple the GOP is against Obama just because he is BLACK and not WHITE. POINT BLANK that's the TRUTH about the GOP outcry against Obama, and the TRUTH HURTS.
The GOP are a bunch of fascists. Fall in lock-step or you're OUT!
Since the GOP claim they are so opposed to socialism, are then now in support of eliminating our government run military, Medicare, FEMA, police etc etc?
You can't have it both ways.
Where's the part of the resolution that describes how Reagan raised taxes and how unemployment was higher then it is now during his presidency?
Yes, Michael Steele, TELL THEM WHAT THEY HAVE TO BELIEVE! It's political socialism, get it? YOU FOOL!
"Hard left does not win, hard right does"
Dave you are truly naive if you think that. Hard right only wins in the deepest red districts, and not anywhere else.
Translation: Same ol' troglodytic GOP that got us to where we are.
Looks to me like they want Reagan to run. Actually, Reagan probably has more on the ball right now than most of the Republican contenders.
I don't understand the ongoing adulation of Ronald Reagan and the pining for the "good old days" of his presidency.
Reagan converted the U.S. from the world's biggest creditor to the world's biggest debtor nation. It's considerably more difficult to play hardball with countries like China when we owe them hundreds of billions of dollars and continue to rely on their confidence in our fiscal health.
Sick and Stupid!
James Bopp, Hale-Bopp, what's the difference?
No wonder the RNC communications guy just quit. He knows the inmates are taking over the asylum.
How can a group of conservatives have anything about the "retention of the Defense of Marriage Act" as a part of their manifesto? That is absurd. They should be the ones at the forefront of keeping the government out of our personal lives, and last i checked, that included marriage.
There is nothing scurilous about this. Any organization must have certain basic tenents to believe in. Otherwise there is no direction, you just bend with the wind. That is suicide for any organization that wishes to remain relevant.
This highlights the primary problem with our society. There is no truth or right and wrong any longer. You just go with the flow. That's not what a political party should stand for.
Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his GRAVE because of what his party has become.
He DID NOT wear his religion on his sleeve, nor did he require a religious litmus test.
Reagan also believed in not speaking badly about other Republicans, because HE could tolerate differences of opinion within his party.
The GOP is throwing Reagan's name around, making all these assertions about a man who cannot defend his name or disagree with thoughts that are being attributed to him.
The GOP should be ASHAMED of themselves for this despicable display of manipulation and coercion!
Man, their hypocrisy is just mind-boggling. Their statement claims they support smaller national debt. But then later in the very same statement, they state clearly that they want to send as many additional soldiers to both Iraq and Afghanistan in order to win. They can't have it both ways.
Since they want smaller debt, I can only assume that the GOP now wants to institute a war tax to pay for those two wars. If not, we will have higher national debt.
Seriously, I don't believe a word these people say anymore...
How do these "servants" of the people find time for all this useless, needless and reckless waste of effort?!? Whether it's this nonsense, or the birther crazyness, it's a total waste of time and money. I would like us, as their bosses, to "dock" their pay for such foolishness. MORE TEA PLEASE.....Real
Nuts &
Crazies
Obama's policies are socialist, sometimes fascist too. But it's not like this "resolution" is going to accomplish anything. Is it so hard for the RNC to reach voters who actually vote for candidates rather than saying candidates need to meet some sorta criteria?
Have any of the Repuglicans looked up the word "liberal" in the dictionary lately?
It means, "Open minded, Tolerant, willing to accept change for the better."
Could someone please explain to them how that isn't a bad thing.
Great idea if you belong to the GOP you get NO social security, NO public schools, if you drive you pay a toll, NO police or fire service, NO medicare, and any other social program is not for you or your family. Remove all military bases from the GOP states. NO military contracts. Nasa will need to move to Calif. NO food Stamps. The possibilities are endless.
Reagan, Reagan, Reagan...he's really all they have left to cling to, huh?
They keep on showing how "out of touch" and PSYCHOTIC they really are! There is NOTHING "socialist" about a public OPTION. Do you see the word OPTION there? Yes, it means you don't have to use it if you don't want to. What's "socialist" about that? It was the REPUBLICANS under BUSH who tried to take over this country with their Orwellian ideas. Patriot Act, FISA, our own war with "Eurasia" (Afghan/Iraq), "perpetual war for perpetual peace", doublespeak (Clean Air Act, Patroit Act, No Child Left Behind), and a war on sex (Abstinence-only education) are just some minor examples. They even tried to push "The Thought Police Act" HR1955 ... cosponsored in the Senate's version by Norm Coleman (R-MN). It's the REPUBICANS who are the Orwellian nightmares, not Obama!
I guess everyone could continue to support obama while he runs the country completely in the ground. The amazing thing is that most of his supporters dont even realize it. Ok, think about this. If you were an owner of a company and things were tight. What would you do. You would cut expenses and certainly not borrow money. The U.S. is borrowing money every time obama rolls out a new program.
Great idea Grand Old Panzies. Continue alienating your party from mainstream America. Cmon, we really know what this is all about. The GOP has NO interest in diversity of anykind and this is their formal way of saying unless you have fringe hard right conservative views, we don't want you. Republican or Dem. Anybody considered a moderate, like the American public these idiots were voted in to serve, must somehow be different or un-American. Blatant exclusion is not only un-american but flat out discriminatory. Heck, they don't even want the unsatisfied independents who's not happy with the Dems right now so what will happen? The moderates on both sides may not vote at all or could create a large enough constituency to form their own party. Keep up the good work GOP, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Sarah Palin and the rest of your scandal ridden goon patrol are doing wonders for you.
Hardcore conservatism is very useful -- for when you're stuck alone in the wilderness Bear Grylls style. Today's GOP thinks that sharing your toys in pre-school is just Obama-socialism-indoctrination. Republican babies preemptively punch the other babies in the face to make sure they don't get a free handout
It's amazing to see how the GOP has turned its hatred uponitself. It is like an egocentric, crazy, nihilistic dictator, foaming at the mouth and shouting, "Off with their heads!" at anyone who disagrees with them.
They've really gone off the rails this time ...
(2) We support market-based health care reform ...
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care ...
LOL. Numbers (2) and (9) are inherently self-contradictory. Market-based health care endangers poor people and certainly rations health care on the basis of insurance company profit interests and ability to pay.
I guess the RNC does not think the poor are "vulnerable."
I guess rationing doesn't count as long as the wealthy are making money.
It is really, really sad that any human being would support such positions. It makes be ashamed to be the same species as them.
Shocking how "conservative" and fiscally responsible Republicans became when they lost control of 2 branches of government. They were spending money like crazy, racking up the biggest national debt ever (that somehow people contribute to Obama now), when they were in power. Three trillion war and tons upon tons of pork barrel spending for the past 7 years. Here we have a President attempting to at least have some dialogue about fixing our country's most dire problems, and they want to sulk in the corner with their hands on their ears going "nanana can't hear you!" for the next 8 years.
I used to be a Republican. But honestly, you "support military-recommended" troop surges...why? Because you have no brain, and your solution to everything is to let someone else make the hard choice? For 8 years, the Republicans turned their back to Afghanistan, and now that it's an absolute MESS, they're upset because the President is taking time to get us out of it? And, they're against "socialist" medical care, but they wanted to increase the size of Medicare when Bush was President? They're for low deficits, and yet, NEVER in our country's history did we have such a huge deficit than when THEY were in office. And, they're for limited government and state's rights, but when it comes to the rights of gay citizens, the 14th amendment means absolutely nothing. By saying they're for state rights, logically they should support the states that support gay rights, but state rights mean nothing unless the state happens to be against gay marriage or for unrestricted gun access. The Republicans are hypocritical and delusional. They burned me, and I won't be coming back.
This is a great example of how organizations attemt to maintain power when threatened. They seek to be the "definers". You see it in politics when the lines of definition between Republicans and Democrats are blurred. The leadership of both parties start to freak-out when candidates start to color outside the lines. At that point, the offended party tries to become the "definer" of what is a true Republican or a true Democrat.
This is the very thing that the GOP is doing now. They fear the potential of a Republican candidate who will (for example) support healthcare reform or gay rights. By defining who IS and who IS NOT a true Republican, the GOP leadership can threaten to damage the political careers of candidates who are shades of gray, thus maintaining their authority.
Beware the "definers", whether at church, at school, or in politics.
Shades of Saint Joe McCarthy and the early 50's. Never thought I'd see those days again. Really scary.
FANTASTIC NEWS! The GOP will surely grow weaker and more irrelevant with this boneheaded move.
Now... if we could just get the Democrats to follow the GOP off the cliff then we'd have America for Americans instead this party first garbage.
We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
So apparently the Republicans just missed the fact that the very founding fathers of our country they are so proud of–were DUH! illegal immigrants and that the whole purpose of the Revolutionary war was nothing more than the illegal immigrants here in America telling England to go away.
Oh and they also need to talk to their buddy George W. because its a very very very very good chance the September 11th terrorists were not here 100% legally and that is why George sent members of their family home on his own private jets.
The GOP has the brain of an elephant and a memory of a demented fool. They are anti;diversity, gays, immigrants, affordable health care, women rights, minorities, liberty, environment, peace.... , all they want is the same old boys' club who love guns, wars, and only themselves
The GOP is starting to step up its fight against Obama because they see that things are starting to turn. They don't want Americans to be happy and successful. they want them angry and worried so that they can expolit their fear with words like socialism, and abortion. People need to get wise to this bunch of American haters.
Folks, health care reform proposed a public option – NEVER has it been stated that health insurance companies will be dismantled and people will be forced to give up their insurance if they don't want to.
Health care reform is all about giving the consumer a CHOICE, which is the cornerstone of capitalism.
If the health care insurance companies – with their eyes on stockholder dividends and $14 million annual salaries (on average) for their CEOs – can't compete in a fair marketplace, well, then, they deserve to go under!